The senator and presidential candidate of the National Party (PN) seeks that the Army “aid” the Police in some areas of the metropolitan area.
The senator and presidential candidate for National Party (PN), Jorge Gandinistated that if they become presidents “he will take the military to the streets” to help the Police in some specific areas of cannelloni and Montevideo.
This Sunday, within the framework of an event for the 105th Anniversary of the birth of Wilson Ferreira Aldunatethe nationalist legislator stressed in a press conference that in the event of his eventual mandate, he will not hesitate to deploy the National Army in neighborhoods classified as “dangerous” in the metropolitan area.
“Today what I am proposing is in force, the military performs police tasks with the same weapons, with the same instruction, with the same uniform, under the same commands, they can arrest, they can use force,” he highlighted in reference to the tasks that perform the Army in border areas.
Gandini assured that this procedure of Army “it is in the law” for those areas that are up to 20 kilometers from the borders. “And if they can do it there, why can’t they do it in the Marconiin New Parisin Spanish Villa“,” said the senator.
Gandini’s military initiative does not gather support in Parliament
However, the military initiative of Gandini He does not gather support within Parliament, neither from the opposition nor from the ruling party itself, and the nationalist senator is aware of this. “It’s so clear to me that I didn’t propose a bill, because it doesn’t come out.” “I am proposing it in my candidacy, I am saying: if I am president of the Republic, under these rules I will take the military out onto the streets,” he asserted.
“Whoever believes that this is wrong should not vote for me, but we must be encouraged to say things, to put them on the table,” the white legislator pointed out in this regard.
Source: Ambito
